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| Small pond with yellow irises |
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| the wild rose |
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| Cool depths of the woods |
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| meadow flowers |
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| the same |
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| perfect blue specimen |
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| Honeysuckles |
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| Refreshment; a Japanese beer and stout |
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| The Cricketers pub |
A magpie's miscellany
Sunday, June 10, 2012
June
What is it about England, one month deep drought, the next month the heavens open and we have floods with the drought over in many counties. It has given us that beautiful verdant green of a temperate climate, and some of the loveliest hedgerows with the wildflowers coming out in obedience to the season. The white and pink of the wild roses cascade down with elderflower shrubs to sweeten the air, the wayfaring bush can be found and today I found wild honeysuckles tangled with the hawthorn.
Just a visit to Danbury Country Park, with its great oak trees, avenues of them leading up to a non-existent house, the long grasses interspersed with the red of the docks. Carpets of tiny white flowers next to a blue carpet of goodness knows what but the bees were loving it.
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Beautiful images of this green, very wet countryside.
ReplyDeleteIt is equally lush here in the New Forest. Hedges studded with Guelder rose and honeysuckle and the heath orchids are in bloom. I would just appreciate a few dry days to get out and enjoy it more!
Lovely to see countryside so different from here. Dartmoor is currently just VERY damp! The ponies seem fine with it though.
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ReplyDeleteIt really is sad that we have a beautiful green land to walk in, but plagued by rain every day. Glad the ponies in Dartmoor are fairly happy with it EM and hopefully the New Forest ponies aren't too glum. It must be bringing on the grass in leaps and bounds.....
So many UK wildflowers are similar to those found here in the eastern united states--others slightly different. Its too bad that blogger has removed the option to click and enlarge photos--I love the details of such things.
ReplyDeleteIt has either been too wet or too dry here this spring/early summer--plants sulk and then come on all at once.
Hi MM, it would be good if photos could be enlarged, the small tapestry of blue and white flowers I have been unable to name, though they could be woodruff, apparently there is a blue version, but don't know....
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